Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:46:02 -0400 From: Hakim Singhji <hzs202@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem Piping iostat -c to awk! Message-ID: <42D7236A.6010803@gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Everyone, I am having problems with a shell script that I am writing. I am looking to pipe the output of iostat to awk however the shell is hanging... even at the command line it hangs. The code looks like this: # iostat -c 300 2 | egrep -v '[a-zA-Z]|^$' | awk '{print $1}' This code hangs for me... now when I just pipe iostat through the egreped patter it is fine. It's when it is passed to awk that I have problems... now of course if I simplify the output to: # iostat | egrep -v '[a-zA-Z]|^$' | awk '{print $1}' it works just fine... so it has to be the awk. What is the problem? Best, - -- Hakim Singhji New York University "But where danger is, grows the saving power also" (qtd. in Heidegger 28). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC1yNps2AZ6g3dZu8RAqtaAJ0UikI+OuRaYuiJJyX8wpQ00dpVsQCeNTP6 wVdnxVHipyGwyrlPU5oITF8= =kPur -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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